a friday in capitola

Today my family drove, four hours round-trip, all the way to Capitola and back to go to Great-aunt Marybeth's funeral.


There were a ton of people from my dad's side of the family there, since Marybeth was his aunt. I don't know most of them very well. In fact, I barely know their names, but they all seemed to know who I was and "how much I've grown up." At any rate, I got sick of the whole business, and I made my way over to Peets after a French exit. Mmm espresso and peace and quiet.


After sitting around at Peets a while and diddling around on my phone, I decided to wander around a little, and found the beach. It was really gorgeous.


Later on, my family loaded up the car and went over to a pizza restaurant with Pops and Grandma and the Lopez cousins.


They had a small arcade with one of those candy claw machines.


Darius got a pack of super-hot candies from there, and the outrageously-named flavors (cherry combustion) had John and Jude making faces the rest of the dinner.